The space environment of Io and Europa

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Citeable URL: https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/datasets/ng451j473

Abstract

These files contain the data shown in figures of the review paper 'The Space Environment of Io and Europa' by Fran Bagenal and Vincent Dols (LASP/CU), published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, 2020.

The Galilean moons play major roles in the giant magnetosphere of Jupiter. At the same time, the magnetospheric particles and fields affect the moons. The impact of magnetospheric ions on the moons’ atmospheres supplies clouds of escaping neutral atoms that populate a substantial fraction of their orbits. At the same time, ionization of atoms in the neutral cloud is the primary source of magnetospheric plasma. The stability of this feedback loop depends on the plasma / moon-atmosphere interaction. The purpose of this review is to describe the physical processes that shape the space environment around the two innermost Galilean moons – Io and Europa – and to show their impact from the planet Jupiter out into interplanetary space.

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